"Adjusting for profession" ignores the cultural context of terms like "pay gap" -- we come from a world where women couldn't work certain jobs at all.
Imagine that doctors and nurses were paid the same. Would you still think that?
Other than salary, neither being a doctor or a nurse is "better". One is more technical, the other involves more personal contact, but neither of those is better, just different.
The same is true for Software Engineers and Test Engineers. It's snobbery to say one is better.
We should be lobbying to get nurses paid more.
(Seriously, I'm starting to wonder if I should give up the QA profession for good, even though I prefer it to being a developer.)
I'm all for having more male nurses and more female doctors and SWEs. I think this is a necessary step to solving the pay inequity gap.
It's not obvious to me that nurses should be paid the same hourly rate as doctors and software engineers. My understanding is that it's cheaper to get the education to become a nurse versus being a doctor. But I'm not an expert in this field.